中英之鑒 中式英語之鑒69

　　[誤] The tram was so crowded that there was hardly sufficient room for you.

　　[正] The tram was so crowded that there was scarcely sufficient room for you.

　　注：副詞 hardly 和 scarcely 雖然都含有“幾乎不”等否定含義，有些時候也可以互換，如：I could hardly/scarcely recognize her(我?guī)缀跽J(rèn)不出她來了)，但仍有細(xì)微的差異。如在強調(diào)數(shù)量“不足”時只能用scarcely，這時它常與enough、sufficient等詞連用。